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Re: Maintaining kernel source in sarge



Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org> wrote:
> 
> Since recently there are also kernel-build packages, which appear to
> be made precisely for that.  I take it to mean the kernel-headers
> packages have proven deficient in some way, but I probably missed many
> things - I am even under the impression their construction is not even
> done by make-kpkg itself.
> 
> Could someone elaborate on that ? (Herbert ?  Manoj ?)

The kernel-build package is simply an aggregation of all flavoured
kernel-headers packages so that module builders can have a single
package to depend on.
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